The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken the decision to cancel the bank holiday originally set for March 31, 2025. This move comes as the central bank aims to ensure that banks across the country remain operational during this critical period for year-end financial transactions. This directive is a response to the need for … Read more
HDFC Mutual Fund has increased its stake in IndusInd Bank by acquiring an additional 0.20% of the bank’s paid-up shares. This move comes during a period of significant market fluctuation for the bank, which recently faced a sharp decline in its share value after announcing discrepancies in its internal derivatives accounting. The banking stock closed … Read more
Kolkata: Personal loan growth moderated in the quarter to December following regulatory cautioning over possible overheating. The annual growth print for the personal loan segment was recorded at 13.7% at the end of December 2024 from 15.2% at the end of September, Reserve Bank of India’s quarterly data showed. Total bank credit growth also decelerated … Read more
“I think the time has come for them to really take charge or take lead or join the overall bullish camp and that is what is sort of happening. A lot of people have started to relook at HDFC Bank,” says Rohit Srivastava, Strike Money Analytics & Indiacharts.What are you reading of this kind of … Read more
“You can see from foreign flows perspective that that rebound in China is detracting from some of the investment in India. I do not think it changes the longer-term trends, but we are in one of those holding patterns similar to the fourth quarter of 2023,” says Laurence Balanco, CLSA.What is the take on India … Read more
MUMBAI – The Reserve Bank of India has approved the appointment of Ashok Vaswani as the managing director and chief executive officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank for a period of three years from January 1, 2024. Vaswani has more than three decades of experience in the banking sector. He was Chief Executive Officer of Barclays … Read more
Mumbai: State Bank of India, which owns nearly a fifth of the country’s outstanding banking-sector credit, is tapping the overseas markets again to raise up to $750 million through bond sales being arranged by JP Morgan, BoFA Securities, Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC, two banking industry sources told ET. The bond sale, part of the … Read more
“We think that now we are entering into earnings season with this business update and particularly the banking sector should do well, both PSU and private banks,” says Hemang Jani, Equity Strategist & Senior Group VP, MOFSL. Well, a slew of Q4 updates have come in from the banking and the NBFC sector. Let us … Read more
“Incrementally, things are not looking positive for Bajaj Auto because 40-45% of their revenue is still coming from exports market and you have some headwinds and we have seen that the production cut has been announced,” says Hemang Jani, MOFSL What is your take on the Adani Group as a whole and if at all … Read more
“It has been a difficult market. We have raised more cash. We are sitting at about probably 7% cash. And so what we have done is basically lowered down some of the cyclical sectors, global sectors that is metals,” says Chakri Lokapriya, CIO & MD, TCG AMC.It is a market which is giving everybody a … Read more